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Radio 4,20 Aug 2013,58 mins

SeriesSeries 1

A Sense of Belonging

Summer Nights

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How important are the groups that we belong to and how free are we to choose between them? Race, class, gender, nationality and religion are all powerful labels - but how important are they really? And in the age of all-consuming social media, is deciding where we belong now something we do on our own? Hardeep Singh Kohli asks his guests what challenges our sense of identity in Britain today. Presenter: Hardeep Singh Kohli Producer: Ruth Watts Interviewed guest: Maajid Nawaz Interviewed guest: Lynsey Hanley Interviewed guest: Tim Stanley Interviewed guest: Hugh Muir Interviewed guest: Paris Lees Interviewed guest: Zoah Hedges-Stocks.

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